dianne dearmon

An enthralling tale of love and beauty, It’s Only Lipstick, Right? gives readers a scandalous look at the catty and cutthroat world of cosmetics as seen through the eyes of Toy, a counter manager in an upscale department store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Together with keeping her hilariously eccentric and unruly team of makeup artists under control, Toy finds herself torn between two very different men: Nikola, a mysterious stranger, who unleashes in her a passion she never knew existed, and Ben, an old flame who unexpectedly reappears. Will she let him burn her twice? It’s Only Lipstick, Right? gives readers a passport into the secret world of the cosmetics industry, a look at the characters the beauty world attracts and a young woman’s search to find balance between her ambition and her love life.